Good to see Braithwaite aired a little hereabouts. The enthronement of
Walcott on Britannia's shores , ever since Larkin 'discovered' (ha, ha) him
for that Oxford book, is yet another of those Brit-tricks of
misrepresentation of that dreadful thing foreign parts. I see Billy Collins
is the latest version of the States for the Revue's oleaginous embrace.
Well, easy listening's got its place in the scheme of things. S'pose. He's
the sort of poet that's ok if you've switched the wordyverse awhile. I like
this too - the back of the Bloodaxe 'Repair' of C.K.Williams represents him
as intellectually the most 'challenging American poet' of his time. Now
Williams C.K.'s ok sort of but if he's a difficult poet I'm friggin' Martin
Heidegger in Chinese translation.
david bircumshaw
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Clark <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: a question
> I have always liked Kamau Brathwaite's trilogy: Mother Poem,
> Sun POem, X/Self, particularly X/Self. There is an earlier
> trilogy I have never been able to get hold of. I also have
> a later book Middle Passage which is not so good. But X/Self
> must be one of the best books of poetry of the past fifty years.
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